Mozilla Thunderbird

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. The goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. The intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firefox (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browser.Features-Keep Your Vital Information OrganizedThunderbird 2 features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you need.-Advanced Folder ViewsThunderbird 2 offers a variety of ways for you to organize and display your folders, whether by favorites, recently viewed or folders containing unread messages. As always, you can also set up RSS and newsgroup folders to stay on top of news and your interests. Thunderbird 2 also allows you to maximize your message view pane by opting for a folder drop down menu instead of the traditional sidebar.-Message TaggingThunderbird 2 allows you to otago messages with descriptors such as oTo Doo or oDoneo or even create your own tags that are specific to your needs. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.-Message History NavigationThunderbird 2 offers message history navigation that allows you to click oforwardo and obacko much like in your Web browser. You can now quickly toggle between messages and folder views.-Improved SearchThunderbird 2 features a find as you type pane that speeds up searches within displayed messages. Thunderbird also offers quick search, which starts showing search results as soon as you start typing in search terms.-Saved SearchesDo you find yourself searching for the same subject or message content over and over? Thunderbird 2 saves you time by allowing you to store this search as a folder. Rerunning the search is just a matter of clicking on the saved search folder in the folder pane.-Stay InformedThunderbird 2 has been updated to provide more informative and relevant message alerts containing sender, subject and message text for newly arrived messages. Folders provide a pop up summarizing new messages in that folder.-Easy Access to Popular Web Mail ServicesThunderbird 2 makes it even easier to integrate and use various Web mail accounts from one inbox. Gmail and .Mac users can access their accounts in Thunderbird by simply providing their user names and passwords.-Secure and Protect Your MailMozilla has bolstered Thunderbirdls acclaimed security and privacy measures to ensure that your communications and identity remain safe. Itls like having your own security guard online.-Phishing ProtectionThunderbird protects you from email scams which try to trick users into handing over personal and confidential information by indicating when a message is a potential phishing attempt. As a second line of defense, Thunderbird warns you when you click on a link which appears to be taking you to a different Web site than the one indicated by the URL in the message.-Robust PrivacyThunderbird 2 offers improved support for user privacy and remote image protection. To ensure a userls privacy, Thunderbird 2 automatically blocks remote images in email messages.-Cutting Out the JunkMozilla has updated Thunderbirdls popular junk mail folders to stay ahead of spam. Each email you receive passes through Thunderbird's leading-edge junk mail filters. Each time you mark messages as spam, Thunderbird olearnso and improves its filtering so you can spend more time reading the mail that matters. Thunderbird can also use your mail provider's spam filters to keep junk mail out of your inbox.-Open Source, More SecureAt the heart of Thunderbird is an open source development process driven by thousands of passionate, experienced developers and security experts spread all over the world. Our openness and active community of experts helps to ensure our products are more secure and updated quickly, while also enabling us to take advantage of the best third party security scanning and evaluation tools to further bolster overall security.-Automated UpdateThunderbirdls update system checks to see if youlre running the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available. These security updates are small (usually 200KB - 700KB), giving you only what you need and making the security update quick to download and install. The automated update system provides updates for Thunderbird on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in over 30 different languages.-Get Your Mail, Your WayThunderbird allows you to customize your email to suit your specific needs whether itls how you search and find messages or listening to music right out of your inbox.-Outfit Your InboxThunderbird users can increase Thunderbirdls functionality and appearance using hundreds of add-ons. A Thunderbird add-on can let you manage contacts, place voice over IP calls, listen to music, and keep track of birthdates all from your inbox. You can even change the appearance of Thunderbird to suit your tastes.-Message TemplatesThunderbird 2 allows you to easily set up message templates to save you time l especially if you have to send the same mail message repeatedly.-Add-ons Manager for Extensions and ThemesThe new Add-ons Manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes, making it even easier for you to customize Thunderbird 2. Install, uninstall, enable and disable your add-ons in a single place.. Mozilla.org - the Mozilla Project.